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Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton
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Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton

Overview of this book

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a modern data integration tool available on Microsoft Azure. This Azure Data Factory Cookbook helps you get up and running by showing you how to create and execute your first job in ADF. You’ll learn how to branch and chain activities, create custom activities, and schedule pipelines. This book will help you to discover the benefits of cloud data warehousing, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage, which are frequently used for big data analytics. With practical recipes, you’ll learn how to actively engage with analytical tools from Azure Data Services and leverage your on-premise infrastructure with cloud-native tools to get relevant business insights. As you advance, you’ll be able to integrate the most commonly used Azure Services into ADF and understand how Azure services can be useful in designing ETL pipelines. The book will take you through the common errors that you may encounter while working with ADF and show you how to use the Azure portal to monitor pipelines. You’ll also understand error messages and resolve problems in connectors and data flows with the debugging capabilities of ADF. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use ADF as the main ETL and orchestration tool for your data warehouse or data platform projects.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Loading data to Azure Synapse Analytics using SSMS

In this recipe, we are going to configure Azure Synapse Analytics, add a new user, and load data into Azure Synapse Analytics from an external resource, such as Azure Blob storage.

Getting ready

Before we start, please ensure that you have created an Azure storage account and uploaded data into a Blob storage container. Please refer to Chapter 2, Orchestration and Control Flow, for guidelines on how to do that.

You need to upload the dataset from this book's GitHub repository to the container. Then, you need to generate shared access signatures to connect blobs via Azure Synapse Analytics.

You can download the dataset from the book's GitHub repository, or you can use your own: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Azure-Data-Factory-Cookbook/tree/master/data.

In this section, we will use the following link to an Azure Blob storage container: https://adfcookbookch3adls.blob.core.windows.net/flightscontainer. You...